American company Intuitive Machines' first lunar mission, codenamed IM-1, was launched into space Thursday morning in the state of Florida, aiming to achieve the first Moon landing of a US spacecraft in five decades.
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After the Chinese coastal city of Dalian experienced a blizzard this week, icicles formed for several kilometers along the boardwalk, resembling crystal ornaments.
Israel has approved the entry of humanitarian aid through the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Israel's Prime Minister's Office announced on Friday.
The Adora Magic City, China's first domestically built large cruise ship, arrived at its home port in Shanghai on Friday to prepare for its maiden voyage. Nearly 1,300 crew members from across the world are in position on board and preparations have entered their final stage.
Group tours via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing in the world, started trial operation on Friday. The 55-km bridge links China's Hong Kong SAR, Zhuhai in Guangdong Province, and Macao SAR.
China ranks first worldwide in terms of the number of full-time equivalent R&D personnel. That number increased from 3.247 million in 2012 to 6.354 million in 2022, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Russia's central bank raised the key interest rate by 100 basis points to 16 percent amid high inflationary pressures, the bank said in a statement Friday.
China's meteorological authorities on Friday renewed an orange alert for a cold wave. It is the most severe warning in its three-tier warning system, forecasting temperature drops in most parts of the country.
China successfully launched Yaogan-41, a high-orbit optical remote sensing satellite, into its planned orbit from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the southern island province of Hainan on Friday.
China's electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, climbed 11.6% in November from a year ago to 763 billion kilowatt-hours, official data showed on Friday.
Seven individuals were handed prison sentences on Friday ranging from three years to five and a half years over the deadly May 2021 mountain marathon in NW China's Gansu, where extreme weather conditions led to the deaths of 21 runners and 8 injuries.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday blocked an EU deal of 50 billion euros (about $54.94 billion) aid for Ukraine and EU leaders decided to return to the discussion in January, media reported.
The number of people covered by old-age insurance in China had exceeded 1.05 billion by the end of 2022, an increase of 24.36 million from the previous year, according to a report on the development of elderly care programs in the country.
Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny, free-floating brown dwarf with only three to four times the mass of Jupiter. The paper was published on Wednesday in The Astronomical Journal.
Domestic tourism in China recorded 3.67 billion visits and a staggering revenue of 3.7 trillion yuan ($520.47 billion) during the first three quarters of 2023, representing YOY increases of 75% and 114% respectively, official figures showed Thursday.